BSD Portsgames/KnightCap 3.6_9 FreeBSD
Chess program with 3D interface for X Window System
- System
- FreeBSD
- Repository
- FreeBSD ports
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Categories
- games
- Package size
- 118.2 KiB, 259.6 KiB installed
Description
KnightCap is a chess program.
The principal differences between KnightCap and other chess programs are:
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KnightCap has an optional fully rendered 3D interface, giving a feel much more like an "over the board" game.
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KnightCap was developed to run on a parallel distributed memory machine, although it also runs on normal Unix boxes.
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KnightCap does not have an opening book---instead it keeps a file (brain.dat) of losing moves and inserts them in the hash table at the start of each search. At present it has about 1500 entries, and this makes it a pretty competitive opening player.
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KnightCap learns the parameters of its evaluation function as it plays. The most dramatic example of how this helps is an experiment we conducted on FICS in which KnightCap learnt from a 1650 player to a 2100 player in just 300 games. See http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Lex.Weaver/pub_sem/publications/knightcap.pdf for more info on its learning algorithm.
In the other systems
| System | Port | Version |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD | games/KnightCap | 3.6_9 |
| NetBSD | games/knightcap | 3.6nb9 |
| DragonFly | games/KnightCap | 3.6_9 |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install knightcapFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/games/KnightCap/ && make install cleanTo depend on this port in another port's Makefile:
RUN_DEPENDS= knightcap>0:games/KnightCapPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | aarch64 | amd64 | armv6 | armv7 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD:14:latest | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 |
| FreeBSD:14:quarterly | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | n/a | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 |
| FreeBSD:15:latest | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | n/a | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 |
| FreeBSD:15:quarterly | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:latest | 3.6_9 | 3.6_9 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:quarterly | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dependencies
The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.
The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.
Build dependencies 18
Run dependencies 18
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
Options name: games_knightcap
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DOCS | off | Build and/or install documentation |
- USES
- gl xorg
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
===> NOTICE: The knightcap port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla More information about port maintainership is available at: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing
Files
distinfo 1
| File | Size | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| KnightCap-3.6.tar.gz | 157943 | 8634d08325e28808d75fde08d2a828607bf5edba075e3ba8376e00fd49fcc4d5 |
Master sites 2
- http://ftp.samba.org/pub/KnightCap/
- ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/KnightCap/
Commit history 0
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